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Word: slobbovian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when I switched over to art," he says, "the world lost a promising surgeon. I mean someone useful as well as ornamental." Now a squat 64, his round brown eyes stare frankly at the world from above a salt-&-pepper beard which is bushy enough for a Lower Slobbovian. "I shaved it off in 1917," he remembers, "and Great God! For three weeks until I could grow it back, I was the Invisible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bronze Buster | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...than once the miseries of Cartoonist Al Capp's (Li'l Abner) mythical, snowbound Slobs, "dropping dad from all kinds starwation," have found not too exaggerated counterparts in reality. In eastern Europe there were at least two genuine foreign envoys in straits almost as dire as the Slobbovian Ambassador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: On the Bum | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

Cautious cables from the never-never land of Lower Slobbovia (TIME, Oct. 7) described the immigrant as "age 18, single, female of some species, maybe human." This week the displaced Slobbovian, billed as the ugliest woman alive, landed in the U.S. and in the funnies. Her name: Lena the Hyena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The (Sob!) Ugliest | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...bleak uplands of Al Capp's pan-Slobbic Utopia were tense with expectation last week. It was the day most eagerly awaited by Lower Slobbovians-G.O.S.* Day, when one lucky citizen is named to fill the U.S. immigration quota of one Slobbovian per hundred years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOWER SLOBBOVIA: Escape from Utopia | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...lucky emigré: Lena the Hyena (pearl of Lower Slobbovian womanhood, who is so ugly that she is kept behind an iron curtain of seclusion lest men, seeing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOWER SLOBBOVIA: Escape from Utopia | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

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